Upon this tremendous cost is superimposed the cost of two juries. the grand jury. and the petit jury. the cost of the district attorneys office. and the cost of the judges office and the marshals office. as well as the maintenance in jail of the prisoner for whatever sentence he receives. and then also the cost of maintaining his wife and children or other dependents. which is usually done by the public welfare. The wet amendments are not intended to destroy the administration of justice. In my city we have 3.300 policemen. deputies. and so forth. to enforce Federal and other laws. and Congress has been drastic enough also to send to Detroit about 600 border patrolmen. a large portion of whom are customs border officers. for the sole purpose of enforcing the prohibition law. The rest of them are immigration border patrolmen. Then you superimpose upon these officers prohibition agents. and the system of tiers of police upon one another is worse than in Russia. even in the days of the Czar. If you had a Federal law against the use of tobacco or chewing gum. you would probably regard it as absurd to appropriate $9.000.000 in addition to the appropriations for all other law enforcement. for the enforcement of that particular law.
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